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📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026 Join us for two seminars on capital controls, financial crises and industrial policy in emerging and developing economies. 📆 Wed 24 June | 4:00–5:30pm 📍 Room S2, ARB Chair: Pedro Mendes Loureiro More info: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

💠Moving Margins of the Human Sciences: Geopolitics, Gender and Disciplines A two-day symposium on how knowledge is produced recognised and contested across gender, geopolitics and disciplines. 📆 18–19 June 📍 Room S1, ARB Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/clas/... All welcome!

🎉 🎓Warmest congratulations to Dr Ange La Furcia, who completed her PhD at the CLAS and has been awarded the 2026 LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award. A well-deserved recognition of her doctoral research.✨ 🔗 Read more: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/news/clas-ph...

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026 Join us for Digging for Hope, a book presentation & panel with Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, on feminist ethnography, women-led search collectives in Mexico, care and collective memory. 📆 Thu 11 June, 12:30pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Open to all!

📣🎙️ The Latinoamericanist Podcast is now live! Conversations across languages, cultures and borders from the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. Hosted by David Lehmann.

📢 CLAS Event Feeling Activism: Emotions, Abortion Rights, and Feminist Politics in Argentina Barbara Sutton (University at Albany, SUNY) Discussant: Nayla Luz Vacarezza (CONICET) 📆 Thu 04 June | 5pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Free & open to all. #FeministPolitics #Argentina @cambridgegender.bsky.social

📢 CLAS Events Policrisis: Cómo enfrentar el vaciamiento de las izquierdas y la expansión de las derechas autoritarias Maristella Svampa (Simón Bolívar Professor 2022) 📆 Mon 01 June | 5:00pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Free & open to all. #LatinAmericanStudies #LatinAmericanPolitics

🌱 Talk | Garden politics: comparing experiences from Ecuador, Trinidad and Colombia What is a garden? 📅 Monday 18 May 🕞 3:30pm–5:00pm 📍 Room 204, Second Floor, ARB ✨ Free & open to all

Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 CLAS Events 🎬 Yo Soy El Bosque / I Am the Forest Film screening (Spanish/English subtitles) Inés Ruiz Alvarado (UNESCO Chair) Chair: Françoise Barbira F. 📆 Wed 20 May | 5:30pm 📍 McDonald Institute, Cambridge Free & open to all. #CLAS60Years #LatinAmericanStudies

Looking forward to hearing from Victoria Cogorno: A Cultural Genealogy of the Patagonian Giants from Magellan to Darwin, 12.30pm, 7 May @newnhamcollege.bsky.social - info: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/cultur... @crasshlive.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term Book presentation: The Gendered Front: Latin American Women’s Cultural Agency during WWII Vanessa Miseres (University of Notre Dame) Chair: Stephanie Rohner (Cambridge) 📆 14 May, 12:30pm 📍 Alison Richard Building Free & open to all #LatinAmericanStudies #CLAS60Years

Recently, we were pleased to show a group of visitors items from our Argentine collections. This was part of an event organised by @clascam.bsky.social, marking the 50th anniversary earlier this year of the coup that overthrew Argentine president Isabel Perón.

A group of people looking at a display of library books.

#SeeYouAtCLAS🍀 As we get ready for Easter Term, we’re looking back at conversations that shaped Lent. From book launches and screenings to seminars and performances, it was a term of rich exchanges on Latin America. Many thanks to our speakers, collaborators and all who joined us. #CLAS60Years

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔔The Argentine Golpe - 50 Years Later 📅 21 April 2026 🕐 13:00–18:30 📍 ARB On 24 March 1976, a military coup against Argentine president Isabel Perón initiated a dictatorship (1976-1983) that disappeared or killed over 30,000 people. Open to all – Registration required

Not sure where to start with our collections, services, or workspaces? Join one of our free 45-minute taster tours and get a guided introduction from our friendly library team. 📅 Upcoming dates: 15 April, 18 April, 9 May, 13 May, 10 June, 13 June. 🔗 Book now: https://loom.ly/COaO_cY

A bright, high-ceilinged library reception area with chandeliers and large arched windows. A staff member stands behind a curved wooden “Reader Services” desk, speaking with a visitor who is holding a phone. Other people and computer workstations are visible in the background, with books stacked on the counter.

🌿 #TBT | Lent Term at #CLAS60Years 8 seminars, 8 powerful conversations on histories, inequalities & political imaginaries across Latin America and beyond. Thank you to all who joined us! 🌼 Easter Term programme now live. #LatinAmericanStudies #CambridgeEvents

📢 CLAS Events Book presentation: Memories and Social Struggles in Contemporary Bolivia Sue Iamamoto (UFBA) | Chair: Sian Lazar 📆 15 April, 2pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Free & open to all + refreshments 🔗 + info: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul... #LatinAmericanStudies #Bolivia #CLAS60Years

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌼 Easter Term at CLAS We’re hosting a series of talks, book presentations and discussions on Latin America in Cambridge. 📅 April–June | 📍 Cambridge Free & open to all + refreshments 🔗 www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/latest-news-... #LatinAmericanStudies #CambridgeEvents #CLAS60Years

What's on this week at Cambridge University Library? 📚Visit our new exhibition, Living Water. 📚Take a break and read some poetry in new Reading Nook in the North corridor. 📚We are closed for Easter, 3 April to 6 April inclusive. 🔎Exhibition opening times: https://loom.ly/FSLQWrg

A photograph of Cambridge University Library on a sunny day.